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What does a 2000 photo of Edward Said throwing a rock at the wall separating newly-liberated southern Lebanon and Israel have in common with the LA protests?

A few thoughts on how 'violence' if framed.

Article version (support if you can) hauntologies.net/p/framing-vio…

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Edward Said throwing a rock

Framing 'Violence', from the 2025 LA protests to the Israeli occupation of South Lebanon

On how 'violence' is reported on, from the Israeli occupation of South Lebanon to the 2025 LA protests
Elia Ayoub (Hauntologies by Elia Ayoub)
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British National Security Strategy Aimed at 'Russian Aggression' eir.news/2025/06/news/british-…

British National Security Strategy Aimed at 'Russian Aggression'

On June 24, the British government released its “National Security Strategy 2025: Security for the British People in a Dangerous World.” The world has changed, U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer declared in the document’s Foreword.
Carl Osgood (EIR News)

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How Britain’s designation of Hamas and Palestine Action as ‘terrorist’ groups silences free speech #Palestine mondoweiss.net/2025/06/how-bri…

How Britain’s designation of Hamas and Palestine Action as ‘terrorist’ groups silences free speech

The UK’s designation of Hamas, and possibly Palestine Action, as “terrorist” organizations shows that the proscription regime is not about preventing terrorism but silencing political views and free expression.
Asim Qureshi  (Mondoweiss)

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#1981
Who can it be knocking at my door?
Go 'way, don't come 'round here no more
Can't you see that it's late at night?
Colin Hay, Scottish-Australian guitarist and singer (Men At Work - "Who Can It Be Now?"; Ringo Starr & his All-Starr Band, 2003, 2008, 2018-present) is 72
youtu.be/SECVGN4Bsgg?si=521AoZ…

Men At Work - Who Can It Be Now? (Video Version)

Men At Work's official music video for 'Who Can It Be Now'. Click to listen to Men At Work on Spotify: http://smarturl.it/MenAtWorkSpotify?I...As featured on...
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Steam Deck Beta Client Update: June 27th: steamcommunity.com/games/16752…
#linux #update #release #gaming #steamdeck #steam

Steam :: Steam Deck :: Steam Deck Beta Client Update: June 27th

We have just shipped an updated Steam Deck Client to the Preview/Beta channel.GeneralFixed certain startup movies not playing correctly. Steam Input Fix glyphs for the Legion Go S the Last of Us: Part 2
steamcommunity.com

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'Within the next week': Trump says Gaza cease-fire between Israel and Hamas is 'close' haaretz.com/us-news/2025-06-28…

'Within the next week': Trump says Gaza cease-fire between Israel and Hamas is 'close'

Referring to the deteriorating humanitarian crisis in Gaza, Trump said, 'You see the lines of people just to get one meal? It's too bad,' adding that the U.S. is 'working on Gaza and trying to get it taken care of'
Ben Samuels (Haaretz)

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So duckduckgo has a 'no AI' version, at the link noai.duckduckgo.com/

I do wish they went for an opt-in so you could choose the ai version at something like 'ai-dot-duckduckgo'. But it's better than nothing.


DuckDuckGo - Protection. Privacy. Peace of mind.

The Internet privacy company that empowers you to seamlessly take control of your personal information online, without any tradeoffs.
DuckDuckGo

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#Introduction

Hello, my name is Christoff.

I live in Illinois, USA, outside the St. Louis area. Below I'll talk about my technology and creative interests, and a bit about me personally. I'm going to hashtag the heck out of this post.

the whole "deadbeef" thing is the magic number from #Solaris for freed memory. I simply chose .monster TLD because it seemed cool and I like "extended" TLDs.

#Technology

I have been using a OpenBSD, #NetBSD, or #GNU/#Linux since the late 1990s as a primary workstation. I used macOS from 2020 to 2025, switching to the #KDE neon distro (KDE plasma is amazing and KDE isn't bloated anymore, yay!).

My current career is as a #pentester where I break into web applications, IP networks, mobile applications (especially #Android), and people to their face or over the phone; code #malware; write documentation; and enjoy helping clients in a third party contractor/consultant role. I started that job change in 2020, when I earned the #OSCP certification at the height of "#infosec twitter" when I did well there.

Previously I worked for about 20 years as a senior-level programmer, and systems, infrastructure, and database administrator. Burnout was very real and I was extremely bored/unfulfilled.

Now that programming and sysadmin stuff isn't my career, I find I enjoy programming and tinkering again.

I am a big fan of NetBSD and always have been. I am not a huge fan of GNU/Linux but I do appreciate things "just working", even if it is full of closed-source binary blobs and other garbage. It was fun in the 1990s.

I know many programming languages but have been paid professionally to code in #C, #Perl, #Python, #PHP, #Java, and #Groovy for big commercial entities like eBay, small companies, and the US government.

I've maintained 99.99% uptime for a 60MM+ platform for years, including failover and backups (that were regularly tested... you test your failover and backups, right?!).

I always wanted to be a cool C and low-level programmer, which I thought for the longest time was being a kernel programmer, but now I know that isn't the life for me.

Emacs is something I've enjoyed since the beginning and I still can't code a #Lisp well. I'd love to be a cool #lisper with #CommonLisp, but haven't gotten there yet. I'm on the #c64 and #embedded #retrocomputing train now.

#Creative

For creative stuff, I aim to do a lot but tend to hop around as interests take me. I could use some discipline there (someday?).

For #music, I have an electric #bass (Fender Jazz) and electric #guitar. I love #jambands (#GratefulDead, #Phish, #Goose) and that's the type of music I like to play along to.

For #art, I like #acrylic and #watercolor painting. I rarely do it, but think about it a lot and love it when I do it. I don't have any skill or talent, but that's not the point. It's for me and no one else.

For #computing, I am venturing into #C64 #demoscene programming and exploration. Not only was I too poor to get one when I was little but I sorta forgot about it over time. The desire to do cool things in a restricted environment where folks are playing in the sandbox, too, is very exciting and attractive to me. I don't know how to code the #Commodore64 stuff yet, but will! Learning the assembly language (I have zero desire to code in BASIC again and I can just code assembly).

#Personal

I live with my soulmate and our five amazing cats in a small town outside St. Louis living a quiet life. Just doing our jobs, taking care of daily life stuff, and enjoying each other and life as much as we can. Ups and downs of life chaos, like anyone else, but we're doing alright!

We enjoy exploring places within driving distance and there are a lot of places to go to.

Currently, we're really into playing two-player games together and just started collecting #boardgames. Right now, we're really digging #SkyTeam, #RoyalGameOfUr, #ForrestShuffle, #SentinelsOfTheMultiverse, and this magnet game I don't know the name of. We have #SpiritIsland and #ArcNova to unwrap and learn. We tried really really hard to get into #ArkhamHorrorTheCardGame but the rules are too complicated and confusing, where it felt like we were doing the wrong thing all the time.

I am 46. I grew up loving Star Wars, Star Trek, #SciFi, reading novels non-stop, horror, and watching movies. I collect classic SciFi books from 1960s and 1970s.

I would perhaps describe myself as an extremely curious person, that loves #puzzles and #mysteries, #exploration, figuring out #HumanBehavior like I'm an alien studying humans (I'm good at it, it turns out), that has a keen eye for detail, remembering random little things, and a good listener. I'm fairly adaptable and fluid in most things, which works well for me. My brain works differently than a lot of people, and while frustrating a lot of the time for things I don't understand fully, it is me and serves me well in niches.

Making people laugh makes me happy. I am a #hacker and #tinkerer.

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Tonight we saw a GREAT VICTORY in the Senate with the “GREAT, BIG, BEAUTIFUL BILL,” but, it wouldn’t have happened without the Fantastic Work of Senator Rick Scott, Senator Mike Lee, Senator Ron Johnson, and Senator Cynthia Lummis. They, along with all of the other Republican Patriots who voted for the Bill, are people who truly love our Country! As President of the USA, I am proud of them all, and look forward to working with them to GROW OUR ECONOMY, REDUCE WASTEFUL SPENDING, SECURE OUR BORDER, FIGHT FOR OUR MILITARY/VETS, ENSURE THAT OUR MEDICAID SYSTEM HELPS THOSE WHO TRULY NEED IT, PROTECT OUR SECOND AMENDMENT, AND SO MUCH MORE. GOD BLESS AMERICA &, MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!

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This morning, as I was preparing our breakfast of pottage and stale bread, my 3-year-old tugged at my doublet and asked with furrowed brow:

‘Father, is it not true that in the absence of a sovereign power—whether it be Parliamentarian or Royalist—man is thrust into a condition of perpetual conflict, a war of all against all? And if so, are we not living amidst the very Leviathan Hobbes warned us of, yet without its unifying force?’

I nearly dropped the trencher. It’s moments like these that remind me: even the littlest among us can perceive the chaos of the Commonwealth when the bonds of social contract fray.

Children know.

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Leaders from countries all over the world are starting to look at Free and Open Source Software options to move their local governments and cities away from the proprietary lock that American tech companies have on them. They no longer want to have to rely on America. Personally, as a Free and Open Source Software advocate, I love to see this. Many of us do. But a question for Trump supporters: How the fuck is this making America Great Again?

I know that I'm preaching to the choir, but Trump supporters are absolute fools.

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HBDH Eziz Gabar Militia; “We Carried Out a Sabotage Action on a Factory Warehouse in Aydın!”


On the morning of June 22, the warehouse section of a factory located in the ASTIS industrial site in the Efeler district of Aydın was set on fire by the Eziz Gabar Militia using a sabotage technique.

As a result of this retaliatory action carried out in memory of our heroic comrades who fought selflessly and became martyrs in Ağrı, Batman and Şırnak, the factory was significantly damaged. The colonialist fascist Turkish state is mobilizing all its resources and carrying out operations against the freedom guerrilla in the four parts of Kurdistan, primarily in the common struggle of our peoples.

The fascist-occupier AKP-MHP gang regime, which is based on the policy of destruction and denial, continues to attack the people and revolutionaries within the scope of the collapse plan that has entered its 9th year. The political and military failures it has suffered have brought the fascist torturer AKP-MHP gang regime to the point of ending.

The occupying army, which can only confront the freedom guerrilla, which has proven its invincibility in every area it is present, especially in Northern Kurdistan, with thousands of soldiers and counter-strikes, dozens of warplanes, UAVs, UAVs and attack helicopters, is still unable to achieve the desired result by hitting the guerrilla resistance.

The unyielding resistance of the comrades who were martyred in the clashes that continued for days increases our determination to fight, and is also the reason for fighting until victory in our just cause. The military operations that are being expanded and continued in Bakur will be fruitless. It will grow the guerrilla resistance.

Until the fascist-occupier AKP-MHP gang regime and everyone who is a part of this dirty war pays the price for these attacks, it is our call to all young people and revolutionaries; Today is the day to grow the guerrilla and its resistance, to demonstrate the steel will of the united struggle against fascism and to take revenge for the martyred comrades.

We call on our patriotic and revolutionary people to actively resist until we uproot the colonialists and occupiers from the lands of Kurdistan and Türkiye!

Long live HBDH!
Long live our Guerrilla Struggle!Long live our Revolutionary People’s War!Long live our United Struggle!Martyr Namirin!

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#guerrilla #hbdh #resistance #turkey #westAsia

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« … any operation that channels desperate civilians into militarized zones is inherently unsafe… »⁣⁣⁣

🔗 · youtube.com/watch?v=oA40GHvoXU…

#Palestine #ceasefire #FreePalestine @palestine⁣⁣

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UN Chief: US-led Gaza aid operation 'Is killing people'

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres delivered a blunt assessment of the US-backed aid operation in Gaza, calling it 'inherently unsafe and killing people',...
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« … it's really extremely distressing to see that militarized humanitarian assistance schemes have emerged… »⁣⁣⁣

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#Palestine #ceasefire #FreePalestine @palestine⁣⁣

🕊️ 🇵🇸 🍉 🙏🏻 ✌️ ☮️


UN rights chief says ‘extremely distressing’ to see ‘militarised’ humanitarian aid in Gaza

UN rights chief Volker Turk, speaking at a press conference on Thursday, said that it is “extremely distressing” to see “militarised humanitarian assistance”...
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Joel [Minnesota]

@fuknukl @echoteecat
This tourney was a good romp and it's always fun to see NA.S getting more interaction with gray and dark Fedi. SRK or Diced Tomatoe, whichever wins it'll be a good game and I think the masses will be pleased. Good job on implementing fixes for issues from last year.

I'm now concerned that with Dread and SRK/Dicey down that next year won't be as dramatic.

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“In 1889 the Treasury Department—which then oversaw immigration—decided that a native-born child could not be sent out of the country with her foreign-born mother. So it admitted the foreign-born mother to take care of the citizen child.

“It was not ‘the intention of Congress to sever the sacred ties existing between parent and child, or forcibly banish and expatriate a native-born child for the reason that its parent is a pauper.’”

What has happened to us?

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June 27, 2025

After the Supreme Court today decided the case of Trump v.
Heather Cox Richardson (Letters from an American)

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In the time before widespread #vaccination, #death often came early.

Devastating infectious diseases ran rampant in America, killing millions of #children & leaving others w/lifelong #health problems. These illnesses were the main reason why nearly 1 in 5 children in 1900 never made it to their 5th birthday.

#Trump #RFKJr #PublicHealth #USpol #policy #science #medicine #vaccines #ConspiracyTheories #AntiVax #eugenics
apnews.com/article/vaccines-me…

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CynBlogger™️Dissents

I was in grammar school from 1947-55. Every single student in our large (50+) classes had ALL communicable diseases — I even had pertussis for almost six months, which nearly killed me. The polio vaccine was a true miracle for the scourge it was for thousands. We have almost 80 years of successful history that proves the efficacy of vaccination. We simply cannot let one batshit crazy person, stupidly nominated and wrongly confirmed, affect our health this way.

#ResignRFKJr

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pistolero

This may be a little too post-musket for your tastes, but "The accomplish’d lady’s delight in preserving, physick, beautifying and cookery : Containing, I, The art of preserving, and candying ... II, The physical cabinet ... and The art of angling. III, The compleat cooks guide ..." is a book from 1677 (with subsequent reprints) that includes a large amount of information about cooking and pickling and seasoning. The archive.org scans suck but the yale.edu reader sucks but there is a download button:

archive.org/details/bim_early-…
archive.org/details/bim_eighte…
collections.library.yale.edu/c…

It also contains a recipe for almond milk, which I thought was a relatively modern thing, but is apparently old.


The accomplish'd lady's delight, ... 1686 : Wolley, Hannah. : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

The accomplish'd lady's delight, ... 1686..Digitized from IA40310607-87.Previous issue: bim_early-english-books-1641-1700_witnesses-produced-again_1653.Next...
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Life of an inference request (vLLM V1): How LLMs are served efficiently at scale

Link: ubicloud.com/blog/life-of-an-i…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…


Life of an inference request (vLLM V1): How LLMs are served efficiently at scale

vLLM is an open-source inference engine that serves large language models. We deploy vLLM across GPUs and load open weight models like Llama 4 into it.
www.ubicloud.com
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